This document outlines the course content for the PDHPE (Personal Development Health and Physical Education) preliminary and HSC courses in Australia. It covers four core units: 1. Better Health for Individuals which examines factors influencing individual health and strategies to promote health. 2. The Body in Motion which explores human movement through anatomy, physiology, fitness and biomechanics. 3. Health Priorities in Australia which investigates current health issues in Australia and the role of the healthcare system in addressing these priorities. 4. Factors Affecting Performance which analyzes approaches to training, skill development, and contributions of psychology, nutrition and recovery to athletic performance.

1. PDHPE
Personal Development Health &
Physical Education
Preliminary & HSC

2. Preliminary HSC Core 1 –
BETTER HEALTH FOR
INDIVIDUALS
The meanings of health, perceptions individuals
have about health & range of factors and
behaviours which influence health.

3. What does health mean to individuals?

4. What influence the health of individuals?

5. What strategies help to promote the
health of individuals?
Health promotion is the process of enabling people to
increase control over, and to improve, their health. It
moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a
wide range of social and environmental interventions.
WHO (2013)

6. Preliminary HSC Core 2 –
THE BODY IN MOTION
The scientific foundations of human
movement. Exploring how and why the body
moves in particular ways, focusing on the
relationships between anatomy, physiology,
fitness, biomechanics and efficient human
movement.

7. How do the musculoskeletal &
cardiorespiratory systems of the body
influence & respond to movement?

8. What is the relationship between physical
fitness, training & movement efficiency?

9. How do biomechanical principles
influence movement?

10. HSC Core 1 –
Health Priorities in Australia
Examining the health status of Australian’s
investigating in depth the current health
priority issues in Australia. Further examine
the role the health system and promotion
play in order to achieve better health.

11. How are priority issues for
Australia’s health identified?
There are several groups in Australia with worse health
than the general population due to a range of
environmental and socio-economic factors.
- Indigenous people
- People in rural & remote areas
- Socioeconomically disadvantage people
- Veterans
- Prisoners
- People born overseas AIHW (2013)

12. What are the priority issues for
improving Australia’s health?

13. What role for health care facilities &
services play in achieving better health
for all Australians?

14. What actions are need to
address Australia’s health
priorities?
Health promotion is the process of
enabling people to increase control
over, and to improve, their health. To
reach a state of complete
physical, mental and social well-
being, an individual or group must be
able to identify and to realize
aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to
change or cope with the environment.
Health is, therefore, seen as a resource
for everyday life, not the objective of
living. Health is a positive concept
emphasizing social and personal
resources, as well as physical capacities.
Therefore, health promotion is not just
the responsibility of the health
sector, but goes beyond healthy life-
styles to well-being. WHO (2013)

15. HSC Core 2 –
Factors Affecting
Performance
Explore the physical and psychological bases of
performance. Students analyse approaches to
training and skill development and investigate
the contributions of psychology, nutrition and
recovery strategies to performance.

16. How does training affect
performance?

17. How can psychology affect
performance?

18. How can nutrition and
recovery strategies affect
performance?

19. How does the acquisition of skill
affect performance?